caffa

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A rich stuff, probably of silk, in use in the sixteenth century.

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Examples

Usually these glances came from women, though sometimes from gentlemen, who simply admired his fashionable clothes, often of caffa, and his velvet hats; at other times these glances were of a concupiscent nature, whereupon I was made to feel most ill at ease.